Presentations

Friday, April 28, 4-5:30 pm DCC Great Hall
 * Spring 2017 STS Research Symposium and Poster Presentation **

__Participating classes__ Lee Nelson's Science, Technology and Society -- 7 posters Steve Bremen's Science, Technology and Society – 8 posters Langdon Winner's Design, Culture and Society – about 12 posters Leo Bchinger's Environment and Politics – 3 posters Thomas DePree's Environment and Politics – 5 posters Dean Nieusma's Engineering Ethics – 6 posters Sustainability Education -- 26 posters

Tips for Good Poster Design

30x40 (and other size) poster templates
 * __Formatting Posters__**

You can download poster templates from the above link into powerpoint and then style the poster in powerpoint. Downloading from the link above will ensure that powerpoint resizes the slide to the appropriate height and width for a poster. For additional help formatting the poster, you can watch this youtube video (start around 2:30 since you already have a template) media type="youtube" key="1c9Kd_mUFDM" width="560" height="315"

If you want the posters to have good quality graphics and text, students may alternatively make their posters in a graphics editing program that allows them to set their document quality to 300ppi—so Photoshop or Illustrator. Posters made in Powerpoint or Word will still print, but will have lower quality graphics and text.


 * __Printing Posters__**

Convert poster files to PDF before sending to the printer to facilitate a predictable print out.

NEVER send PowerPoint or Adobe Creative Suite (e.g., Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) files to the printers.

How to print posters in the VCC: @http://dotcio.rpi.edu/services/printing/plotting-rcs-public-plotters/plotting-instructions-various-applications 

The cost for a standard color plot on normal paper is $2/foot, and glossy paper is $2.75/foot. The paper is physically 36” wide, so the cost is calculated by the other measurement. For a 30” by 40” poster, that would print on 36” by 40” of paper and would cost $2 * 3.33” = $6.67 for a normal paper plot, and $2.75 * 3.33” = $9.17.  Examples of student poster presentations at NASA http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2016/08/29/6-ways-earth-observations-tackle-real-world-problems/?src=eoa-blogs

Another example:

__**IMPORTANT REMINDERS**__
 * 1) Be sure to print your poster at least a day before it is due. The print queue can be quite long at the end of the semester, and you may not receive your poster until a few hours after you print it.